Visual Art – Pittsburgh
Desiree Palermo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986) earned a B.S.Ed. in art education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and is currently working on her M.F.A. in painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, Georgia. She had her first solo show, “Di[pro]gress,” at Fresh Exhibitions Gallery in Savannah, and group exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Savannah, including “the RAW Artists’ Showcase” and “the Port City Review”. She creates large-scale abstract paintings with a focus on relationships between the materials, formal elements and intuition.